Ability to assess advantages and limitations of current and emerging technologies, on-line resources and software to facilitate teaching and student learning.
Over the course of the semester, I created several rubrics that dealt with the understanding of technology as well as how current technologies, like online websites and online tools, increased student achievement. I am attaching my evaluative rubric that I used to look at the technologies in order to see its overall potential benefit in terms of the learner. The evaluation that I completed was on a web-based learning tool that I use, weekly, in my own English/Language Arts classroom. It’s called No Red Ink, and it can be found at the web address www.noredink.com. This site offers step-by-step lessons to help students with grammar skills as well as quizzes them and updates them on their mastery of a given grammar subject. It also helps teachers make data-driven decisions based on students’ quiz results. I decided to evaluate this tool on the following criteria: interactivity, design, engagement, and usability (after researching and reading in my textbook). Overall, I gave this web-based tool a 3.5/4 or an 88 %. In terms of interactivity, I gave this tool a 4/4 on the rubric that I created. The tool is meaningful to learning and always adds to learning. When student first sign up for a No Red Ink account, they are asked a series of questions regarding their interests. Then, based on the teacher’s assignment, it generates quiz questions that are directly related to the students’ interests which makes content more meaningful to them as they review lessons and take grammar quizzes.
Ability to assess advantages and limitations of current and emerging technologies, on-line resources and software to facilitate teaching and student learning.
Over the course of the semester, I created several rubrics that dealt with the understanding of technology as well as how current technologies, like online websites and online tools, increased student achievement. I am attaching my evaluative rubric that I used to look at the technologies in order to see its overall potential benefit in terms of the learner. The evaluation that I completed was on a web-based learning tool that I use, weekly, in my own English/Language Arts classroom. It’s called No Red Ink, and it can be found at the web address www.noredink.com. This site offers step-by-step lessons to help students with grammar skills as well as quizzes them and updates them on their mastery of a given grammar subject. It also helps teachers make data-driven decisions based on students’ quiz results. I decided to evaluate this tool on the following criteria: interactivity, design, engagement, and usability (after researching and reading in my textbook). Overall, I gave this web-based tool a 3.5/4 or an 88 %.
In terms of interactivity, I gave this tool a 4/4 on the rubric that I created. The tool is meaningful to learning and always adds to learning. When student first sign up for a No Red Ink account, they are asked a series of questions regarding their interests. Then, based on the teacher’s assignment, it generates quiz questions that are directly related to the students’ interests which makes content more meaningful to them as they review lessons and take grammar quizzes.